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We’ve been advising clients, like, don’t look at this as a first 100-day thing. This is going to be the pace for the next three years and 10 months,
Cutler told PI
Since he knows the administration’s decisionmakers, he can interface with agencies to get results,
said Adam Bult, who co-chairs Brownstein’s litigation practiceThere’s always that hope that these won’t last long, and you don’t want to create a big ruckus out of nothing, not for something that could go away quickly,
another lobbyist told Doug and AriBut that may be wishful thinking,
they write, given the recriminations and threats that were coming out of both Ottawa and Washington on TuesdayIn the past a lot of the restrictions were focusing on Made in China, and increasingly it is focused on Made by China
says Gary Ng, senior economist at Natixis
Everybody’s hoping that the tariffs that have been implemented are just a negotiation tactic, but the longer they go on, the more they are going to pressure the overall economy and raise prices,
said Robert Pavlik, senior portfolio manager at Dakota Wealth
We are on the tariff roller coaster,
Wasif Latif, chief investment officer at Sarmaya Partners in New JerseyThe market really wants certainty and it will adjust to whatever they are,
he said at the Bloomberg Invest conference in New York
As long as these tariffs are in place, Americans will be forced to pay higher prices on household goods,
David French, the National Retail Federation's executive vice president of government relations, said in a statement
The world is long U.S. assets to a degree it has never been before and if they get scared of being on those assets, that will be the single biggest driver of dollar weakness going forward,
said Kit Juckes, head of FX strategy, at Societe GeneraleThe risks to the dollar outlook over the next few months are even-sided. On the one hand, tariffs and elevated geopolitical uncertainty support a stronger dollar. On the other hand, shifts in German fiscal policy and the disruption across multiple fronts pose downside risks. We are therefore neutral,
said George Saravelos, head of FX research at Deutsche BankMarket uncertainty surrounding tariffs, inflation, interest rates and government policies ... have led to a disappointing start of the year in investment banking,
driving investors away from those stocks, ... the analysts wroteThere is a strong view that a lot of things around taxes and regulation will go in the right direction, but in the interim, those negotiations can be controversial and complex,
said Gregory Bedrosian, managing partner & CEO of boutique investment bank Drake StarThe prospects of higher tariffs and escalating tensions between the U.S. and its trading partners are the top concerns for many U.S. corporate borrowers we rate,
S&P Global ratings said in a research report on ThursdayWe would be super aggressive on that deal if there wasn't so much uncertainty around tariffs,
the executive said, asking not to be identified because the talks were private
All the deals got held off in January and February,
said Bill George, former Medtronic CEO and executive fellow at Harvard Business SchoolWe can't take that risk right now,
the investor said days before Trump levied 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, triggering a global trade warIf Lutnick's comments about giving relief on tariffs for Canada/Mexico holds, it would ease some of our concerns,
said Mohit Kumar, chief Europe economist at Jefferies
During Trump's first term there was breathless coverage and obsession over tariffs but without any obviously discernible economic impact,
What they're saying ... Harvard's Jason Furman tells Axios
The CHIPS act is a horrible, horrible thing. We give hundreds of billions of dollars and it doesn't mean a thing. They take our money and they don't spend it,
Mr Trump said in a speech to Congress